The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22

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fully brushed tops. James stands very
straight. He has grown frightfully brittle
since he was imported and put in service.
! Perhaps it is the American climate acting
on his English system. James will fall
asleep and blow. over some day and break
into thousand pieces
While you are watching James and wish
ing he would, another James comes riding
| by, sitting beside his young mistress, who is
driving, on the seat of yellow trap. His
hands are in red gloves and crossed on his
| lap like small specimen hams from Cincin-
natl. He looks exactly like his fellow on
the sand. All grooms, in fact, are very like
a sheet of English postage stamps, identical
in appearance and value. They all have a
clearly shaven Chauband look, and they
constitute one of the many present mystic
ries of the American social panorama.
1t is understood, OF course, that from our
shirt collars to our tally-hos we import and
| adopt nothing English unless it is more
awkward and ungainly than our own home
articles but why we should have gone to
the extent of a James is none the less
puZzllng to determine. If mademoiselle
and her young lady chum take a ride they
can Interchange not one word of conf
Dental gossip unless the red and capacious
ear Of james receives it also If Stanley
and Elsie ride side by side through the in
spring softness of the after-giow no word
or sigh of tenderness between them can
escape the knowledge of the Salar-ed goose
berry in tops, on the seat behind, who is fed
and found that he may certainly be on hand
when he assuredly is not wanted. Stanley
must either stow him under the seat, or jolt
him off, Or keep dscreetly silent. These are
his only courses of action, and yet the young
ladies Indignantly seek to know why our
young men no longer marry. James is the
cause. James may be simply thing. His
brains may be hidden In the lining of his
hat, and Ills relation to the vehicle be
little less than the dngboit and a little
more than the pug but he is there just the
same, and whenever man feels yearning
and alloverish, he invariably insists upon an
audience of only one.
Your beauty of the hop of the night be
fore comes down to the water The pretty
back is just as straight, though it is hidden
now in the trim red bathing dress and the
smile she gives the ocean the same she gave
her partner. She has two girl friends with
her, ladies born, with their milk white
teeth and bright New England faces. The
three go hand and hand into the water.
There Is not a man of their class to accom-
pany them. There are comparatively few
men, anyhow. The college boy and the dude
are both absent The dude does not SWIM
lacking cablegram that Wales has put his
royal feet i'll the royal water, and the college
is at Narragansett and the Massachusetts
beaches in his rowing shirt, with the class
number on its breast over the muscles he
so obviously wears. He is there with the
pretty girls in the gay wet multitude, and
they are duly appreciative of him, for he is
a very good sort under all circumstances,
and the best natured and brightest of
cavaliers.
The three GraceS run into the water, how
and wall for "a xpnnHar No
women run alike, and few run we'll There
Is nothing locomotive in the whole animal
Kingdom that some of them do not man
age To initiate. From the tragic stork to the
contemplative hen in hurry all the varied
gaits are clearly to be found upon the beach.
Most of them run like snipe, the wings close
to the side, the legs straight, and no bend
ing of the body anywhere. When a silver
winged flock of the latter light n little way
down the shore and skip stffly along the
san1s with that constant and industrious
search for nothing in particular which dis
tlnguIshes snlps IN moving and women in
shopping, their resemblance in motion to
tle groups of women near them savors too
much OF mocking purpose to be entirely
matter of choice
There is nothing striking about the bath
ing suits. 1t is not good form to wear war
pant in the water. As far as appearances
are concerned, the dress is quite us conserva-
Give, II not more SO, than that of the ball
room. Some of the figures are striking
One of them is a tremendous girl She
wears a cap OF blue and white lateral stripes.
which hang down backward She is yery
strong, full chested and brunette, ana walks
with her head thrown back like a ma =
She looks like "a salon painting of Breton
fisher-glrl as she tramps across the sands.
The basket would make her one to the life
She swims, too, with power She can
scarcely be called one of the elect, though
many of the elect are strongly-buiIt wo-
men. The hunting field and the English
fashion of health and strength are reinoy-
ing little Of that weak delicacy which has
been charged against American girls. An
instance of it is just going over the sands
She is too straight and elastic. Yesterday
afternoon, on the ocean drive, she was ele-
gantly clad on the summit of a monumen-
tai English cart. She wears a pretty
suit of black, and her feet are an
innovation. She wears white sandals, with
rubber soles, bound about her ankles
with bright red braid. The effect is strik-
ing. 1t truly seems as if she desired to call
attention to her lower limbs, for from ankle
to knee they are unprotected against wind
and water; in fact, bare. Nevertheless, YOU
forgive her. You are not sorry she did so.
You are disposed TO generously accord her
all the powers of observation that you have
at your command. Ii all the young ladies
were as happily adj usted as she Is, you might
be induced to overcome your very natural
scruples ON the matter, and consent TO let
them enjoy all the freedom in walking that
the uitramarine laws OF Rhode Island ap-
pear to contemplate